System Requirements

Supported operating systems

• Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2
• Examples of distributions include:
  • Red Hat Enterprise 5 & 4
  • CentOS 5 & 4
  • Fedora 10 & 9
  • Ubuntu 8.10 & 9.04
  • Debian 4
  • SLES 10
  • OpenSUSE 11
  • Asianux 3.0

Note: Systems with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported in current version.

Supported file systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations:

• FAT16/32
• NTFS
• Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
• ReiserFS3 - particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups
• XFS - volume recovery without the volume resize ability, particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups
• JFS - particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups
• Linux SWAP

Supported storage

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices
• CD-R(W)
• DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)
• ZIP®, Rev® and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices
• Tape drives and tape autoloaders